Oh, No, Nothing Could Go Wrong Here

Does the idea of beating up total strangers get you going? This weekend, if you’ve got nothing better to do (and maybe even if you DO have something better to do), head over to Centennial Park, where – at latest superofficialFacebookcount – almost 800 people have RSVPed to beat each other silly… With pillows. We missed the first giant pillow fight last September, but from the looks of the videos and photos, it was pretty intense.

Pillow fighting is a young person’s game, and I’m pretty sure no one wants a guy my age popping them in the head with a Tempur-Pedic pillow. Besides, many of them probably voted for Barry and I’m not sure my anger would keep me from doing some real damage while I screamed, “Feeling all hopey-changey are you?”

I used to read about block parties. And people used to get together in someone’s back yard to barbecue. Or pile into two or three cars with a bunch of food, some blankets, and maybe frisbees or footballs, or something, and have a picnic.

And now, thanks to a “social networking” site, we have giant pillow fights–??? Sounds like a 70s-style exercise to exorcise some anger.